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The scams from Africa and other continents such as Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America usually arrive in the intended scam victim's email as a scam letter. The email tries to appear personal by using words like "help," "dear," and "friend," "urgent" and "hello." In reality, however, the scam letter is sent to all the email addresses in the mailing list much like regular email marketing. When the scam letter is read, a story unfolds of secret bank accounts, people suffering from disease, people dying from war, car and plane crashes and other mayhem. The goal of the scam letter is to get the victim to believe that a large fortune will come their way; all they have to do is what the scam letter says. What the scam letter does not say is that the scam victim has to cash a check for the scammer so that certain expenses can be paid to release the vast quantity of money that will make the scam victim become rich. The Nigerian scam letter as well as scam letters from other countries will tell the scam victim that they can receive millions of dollars or pounds. The check scam begins when the victim cashes the check from the scammer and sends the money back. At this point, the victim waits for their fortune to arrive as promised in the scam letter. Meanwhile, the victim's bank deducts the amount of the fake check from the victim's account.
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